April 25, 1945, Mussolini tried to flee to Switzerland with their lover, Claretta Petacci, but both
were captured in the neighborhood of Dongo province of As by Italian partisans, when the decision already had been taken,
who they executed them in Giulino I gave Mezzegra (in the proximity of the lake of Like) April 28, 1945 by order of the Committee
of Liberation National.The corpses of Benito Clearly Petacci and other fifteen people representatives of the Italian Fascism,
among them Alessandro Pavolini, Paolo Zerbino, Incola Bombacci, Luigi Gatti, personal assistant of Mussolini, and various
ministers, they were transported and exposed publicly hanging by the feet down the head of the ceiling of a distributor of
gasoline in Piazza Loreto of Milan April 29, 1945, where a year before they were executed and exposed fifteen partisans as
retaliation by To a German truck. The crowd maddened was infuriated with the bodies

Mussolini was being transported around Italy by his captors, whilst Skorzeny, selected personally by Hitler and to
carry out the mission, was tracking him.

Intercepting a coded Italian radio message, Skorzeny used his own reconnaissance to determine that Mussolini was being
imprisoned at Campo Imperatore Hotel, a ski resort at Campo Imperatore in Italy's gran Sasso, high in the Apenine Mountains.
On 12 sept 1943, Skorzeny joined the team to rescue Mussolini in a high-risk glider mission. The commandos crashed their gliders
into the nearby mountains, then overwhelmed Mussolini's captors without a single shot being fired. Skorzeny attacked the radio
operator and his equipment, and formally greeted Mussolini with "Duce, the Führer has sent me to set you free!"
to which Mussolini replied "I knew that my friend would not forsake me!" Mussolini was first flown from Campo Imperatore in
a Luftwaffe Fi 156 Storch liaison aircraft, then flown on to Viena (where he stayed overnight at the Hotel imperial)
and given a hero's welcome.

The operation on the ground at Campo Imperatore was in fact led by Lieutenant Count Otto von Berlepsch, planned by Major
Mors and under orders from General Student, all German Air Force Paratroop officers; but Skorzeny stewarded the Italian
leader first into Rome and eventually into Berlin, right in front of the cameras. After a pro-SS propaganda coup at the behest
of SS Reichsführer Himmler and propaganda minister Goebbles, Skorzeny was granted the majority of the credit for the
operation.